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Symmetry Breaking

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We finally come to a major influence of non-dissipative aspects on nonequilibrium structures.

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    More positively, such maximum entropy principles can teach us what observables or quantities are missing in the variational formulation. Here for example we will learn that there is more than the values of currents or of entropy flux alone that characterize the nonequilibrium ensemble.

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    After all, the idea of stationary distribution has lost most of its meaning now since the trajectories distributed by (7.1) are not associated to a Markovian time-evolution.

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Maes, C. (2018). Symmetry Breaking. In: Non-Dissipative Effects in Nonequilibrium Systems. SpringerBriefs in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67780-4_7

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